Learning Resources
Lismore Regional Gallery is committed to supporting life-long learning and cultural engagement. We develop resources that further enhance skills of critical thinking, playful interaction, self-expression, and applied knowledge while embracing new ideas relating to arts and culture.
Learning Resources on this page are for students, educators, families, and lifelong learners to develop greater engagement with art at home. Enjoy!
The Arts and Literacy Kit
Archibald Prize 2024
Inside the Archibald Prize 2024 education resource brings together the portraits, facts and stories of the prize with supporting strategies for teaching and learning about portraiture across all learning levels. This learning resource is designed to be used in conjunction with a visit to the Archibald Prize exhibition or to support studies in portraiture.
• A learning resouce designed to engage students with the 2024 Archibald Prize and inspire art-making, critical thinking and discussion about portrait painting. K–6 questions and activities encourage students to identify, discuss and experiment with different techniques, media and subject matter within portraiture. These making and responding ideas help students connect the artworks to their own world. 7–12 questions and activities are designed to support student analysis of the artworks using the frames and conceptual framework. These prompts encourage critical thinking about the artists’ practices and the relationships between artists, artworks, audiences and the world we live in. You can download the learning resource as a PDF here.
• Portraiture: this learning resource is designed to engage primary and secondary students with the ideas and practices of portraiture.
• Young Archie Competition: invites budding artists between the ages of 5 and 18 to submit a portrait.
OCCURRENT AFFAIR, proppaNOW
The OCCURENT AFFAIR education resource offers:
• Insight into the practice and history of the proppaNOW collective,
• a glossary of terms, guide to cultural safety and introduction to how to Acknowledge County,
• Thematically based activities for students and teachers for use in the classroom, or the gallery,
• Links for further reading and exploration.
The activities in this resource aim to be used flexibly by all ages and abilities but particularly aimed towards high school students and adult learners. They may be undertaken before, during or after an exhibition visit. While these activities have been written with secondary students in mind, teachers are encouraged to adapt these learning activities to suit their context and their students.
ARTEXPRESS
Inside ARTEXPRESS lets you explore artists and works back to 2005. It includes process diaries for some students and related artworks in the Art Gallery’s collection to consider. More information and resources such as virtual visits of past years, stories behind the art, and more are available via this link.
ARTEXPRESS 2024 virtual tour. This virtual visit to the ARTEXPRESS 2024 exhibition shows the works of art in-situ within the Art Gallery of New South Wales space.
William Kentridge, I am not me, the horse is not mine
Resources from I am not me, the horse is not mine from the Art Gallery of NSW include a printable art activity - Make a Flip-book animation (all ages), a PDF Learning Resource for highschool students, including a video conversation between South African artist William Kentridge and Art Gallery of NSW director Dr Michael Brand, discussion questions, and artwork in focus, and Kinder - Year 6 activites and discussion points.
Deborah Kelly, CREATION
Resources from CREATION at the Museum of Contemporary Art as part of The National: New Australian Art 2021 include recorded spoken text, Auslan, a written transcript of the recording, and a written artist profile.
Click here to learn more about Deborah Kelly and CREATION.
Lindy Lee: Moon in a Dew Drop
The Museum of Contemporary Art has provided numerous resources for Moon in a Dew Drop. These include: chance creations; light and shadow; in the moment; create cute characters with shapes and colours; creative homeschooling: a go to list when the lesson plans fail from ArtsHub Australia, colour scavenger hunt; and creative things to do at home. More education resources can be found here.
Face Me: The Art of Deafhood
Resources developed by Lismore Regional Gallery include Learn Auslan Alphabet Video; Face Me Angie Goto Activity Sheet; Auslan Self Portrait Activity with Sigrid Macdonald (with closed captions and voice-over)
Karla Dickens
Virtual Artmaking Lesson with Wiradjuri Artist Karla Dickens
Video produced by Art Gallery NSW and The Arts Unit (NSW Government)
Digby Moran: Growing up on the Island, education resource
Lismore Regional Art and Literacy Kit
Other online resources
12 World-Class Museums You Can Visit Online
Biennale of Sydney: NIRIN
Art Gallery NSW Learning Resources
Museum of Contemporary Art Learning Resources
QAGOMA Learning resources for primary and secondary levels
QAGOMA KIDS LEARN
TATE
COLOSSAL
For exhibition resources from any of our past exhibitions, contact us.
*all images are copyrighted and may not be reproduced outside of these documents.
